Indigenous Crime and Settler Law
Heather Douglas, Mark Finnane
ISBN: | 9781137161840 |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Published: | 21 August, 2012 |
Format: | eBook |
Indigenous Crime and Settler Law
Heather Douglas, Mark Finnane
In a break from the contemporary focus on the law's response to inter-racial crime, Heather Douglas and Mark Finnane examine the foundations of criminal law's response to the victimization of one Indigenous person by another. Against the changing background of settler encounters with Australian Indigenous peoples, they show that the question of Indigenous amenability to imported British criminal law in Australia was not resolved in the nineteenth century and remains surprisingly open. Through a
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